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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
ALSO CALLED: Sarbox, Sarbanes Oxley Act 2002, SOX, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404, Section 404, Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act, Sarbanes Oxley Act, Sarbanes Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbanes Oxley Law DEFINITION: SOX Section 404 (Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404) mandates that all publicly-traded companies must establish internal controls and procedures for financial reporting and must document, test and maintain those controls and procedures to ensure their effectiveness. The purpose of SOX is to reduce the possibilities of corporate fraud by increasing the stringency of procedures and requirements for financial … Definition continues below.
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The New Code of Ethics: Creating the Right Code and Integrating It Into Your Compliance Program sponsored by Convercent WHITE PAPER: Get help with your code of ethics strategy as you view guidelines on defining your business values, writing an effective code, and getting your employees to comply. Posted: 07 Jun 2013 \| Published: 07 Jun 2013 TOPICS: Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Compliance Software \| Ethics \| Fraud Protection \| Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Preparing for Big Challenges Ahead: Turning Hotlines into Critical Early-Warning Systems sponsored by Convercent WHITE PAPER: Uncover how a hotline can serve as an "internal oversight" system, an early warning alarm to help maintain compliance, ensure preparedness, and prevent investigations and legal action. Posted: 07 Jun 2013 \| Published: 28 Jun 2013 TOPICS: CIOs \| Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Compliance Software \| Fraud Protection \| Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Supporting SOX Compliance Through Enterprise Revenue Dynamics sponsored by Revitas, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This resource describes how the right financial management approach will allow you to automate the financial reporting and analysis process, giving you the visibility you need while also addressing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requirements. Posted: 31 May 2013 \| Published: 29 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Accounting \| Accounting Software \| Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance Software \| Financial Applications Software \| Financial Management \| Financial Reporting \| Financial reporting software \| Financial Systems \| Financial Transaction Processing \| Financing \| Regulatory Compliance \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Encrypting Private Data 101 sponsored by Iron Mountain WHITE PAPER: Data protection is critical insurance against loss of data that could cripple a business. Creating a successful disaster recovery and data protection plan requires people, process and technology in the right recipe to be successful. It is not easy work, but it is essential work. Posted: 11 May 2011 \| Published: 11 May 2011 TOPICS: Backups \| Best Practices \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Disaster Recovery \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Storage Systems \| Tape Backups

Fixed Asset Inventory: A Guide to Getting Started sponsored by Sage Software WHITE PAPER: Deployment of a fixed asset management provides countless benefits ranging from prevention of overpayment on property tax and insurance, to reducing the risk of non-compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Read this paper to learn about best practices for fixed asset inventory management and tips for implementing a successful inventory process. Posted: 01 Mar 2012 \| Published: 01 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Asset Management (Finance) \| Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Compliance reporting software \| Enterprise Asset Management Software \| Fixed Assets \| Inventory Management \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance \| Tax Law

The New Age of Compliance: Preparing Your Organization for a New Era of Increased Accountability and Enforcement sponsored by Mimosa Systems WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the current state of regulatory compliance and the impact of non-compliance. It also addresses the current political environment and the shift in the compliance landscape and compliance enforcement for which organizations need to be prepared. Finally, it discusses some best practices that can be applied to streamline.. Posted: 06 Jul 2009 \| Published: 10 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Compliance Software \| Electronic Discovery \| Email Archiving \| Email Archiving Software \| HIPAA \| HIPAA Compliance \| Microsoft Exchange \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance \| Securities and Exchange Commission

Building a Best-Run Finance Organization sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This SAP Executive Insight examines the changing role of the finance organization in today's business environment. Further, it describes how companies can develop best-run finance organizations. Posted: 08 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 Jun 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Management \| Business Metrics \| Business Models \| Business Performance Management \| CEOs \| CFOs \| CIOs \| Financial Management \| Financial Metrics \| Financial Transaction Processing \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

A Complete View Of The Enterprise: Linking Operational And Financial Planning In Global Organizations sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes. Posted: 05 Jun 2009 \| Published: 01 May 2008 TOPICS: Balance Sheets \| Business Intelligence \| CFOs \| Financial Industry Organizations \| Financial Management \| Financial Metrics \| Financial Reporting \| Financial Services \| Financial Services Industry \| Financial Systems \| Risk Assessment \| Risk Management \| SAP (Product) \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Addressing Compliance Initiatives with Center for Internet Security Benchmarks sponsored by Tripwire, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper details the background you need to build an effective compliance program by understanding benchmarks, the basic building blocks of compliance initiatives. You'll learn about the benchmarks specified by the Center for Internet Security (CIS), which are often used as a starting point for creating a compliance initiative. Posted: 30 Mar 2009 \| Published: 01 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Audits \| Compliance Best Practices \| HIPAA \| HIPAA Compliance \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance \| Security Audits \| Security Policies \| Security Standards

Sarbanes-Oxley IT Compliance: How to Leverage Automated Control Objective Auditing sponsored by nCircle WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how nCircle Suite360, the world's most comprehensive security and compliance audit suite, provides a unified solution for compliance automation and consistency for Sarbanes-Oxley as well as other enterprise regulations. Posted: 16 Mar 2009 \| Published: 02 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Compliance Audits \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Network Monitoring \| Payment Card Industry \| Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance \| Vulnerability Management

Monitoring Physical Threats in the Data Center sponsored by APC by Schneider Electric WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the class of threats, suggests approaches to deploying monitoring devices, and provides best practices in leveraging the collected data to reduce downtime. Posted: 04 Feb 2009 \| Published: 03 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Security \| IT Best Practices \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance \| Storage Security

Sustaining Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Best Practices to Mitigate Risk, Automate Compliance, and Reduce Costs sponsored by Tripwire, Inc. WHITE PAPER: To successfully sustain compliance, organizations must implement best practices to ensure IT systems not only achieve a known and trusted state but they also maintain that state. Check out this white paper to learn how Tripwire solutions enable organizations to achieve and sustain SOX compliance. Posted: 08 Jan 2009 \| Published: 08 Jan 2008 TOPICS: Business Processes \| CobiT \| Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Corporate Governance \| Information Security \| Risk Management \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Laws, regulations and compliance: Top tips for keeping your data under your control sponsored by Sophos, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the rules, looks at the main threats to security compliance and highlights how a well-defined strategy, backed up by powerful technology, can provide the solution. Posted: 22 Dec 2008 \| Published: 22 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Basel II \| CobiT \| Data Encryption Standard \| Data Governance \| Data Security \| Data Stewardship \| Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act \| HIPAA \| HIPAA Compliance \| IT Governance \| Legal Compliance Software \| Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard \| Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance \| Regulations \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance \| Security Best Practices \| Security Management \| Security Threats

Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Convergence of Security and Compliance sponsored by Imperva. WHITE PAPER: Security and compliance issue will continue to dominate IT initiations as long as valuable on customer, employees, patients and business financials is exchanged and stored. Posted: 08 Oct 2008 \| Published: 08 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Data Security \| Enterprise \| IT Infrastructure \| SAP (Product) \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Turning the Compliance Challenge into a Business Advantage sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: New rules have spawned an army of consultants, vendors and solutions to address the "compliance" problem. Read this paper to learn how to turn the compliance challenge into a business advantage. Posted: 26 Sep 2008 \| Published: 18 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Change Management \| Compliance (Finance) \| Consultants \| HIPAA \| Insurance Industry \| Outsourcing \| Product Management \| Regulations \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Spreadsheets

Co-Marketing with Channel Partners: Expand Your Marketing Reach with Channel Marketing Funds sponsored by SAP AG WHITE PAPER: As organizations seek new ways to increase brand awareness and generate demand in more complex market environments, there has been a renewed interest in co-marketing programs. This paper provides techniques to achieve this. Posted: 19 Sep 2008 \| Published: 17 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Channel Management \| Financial Systems \| Marketing \| Marketing Information Systems \| Productivity \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

Global Best Practices in Email Security, Privacy and Compliance sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc. WHITE PAPER: A new generation of email security solutions is needed to meet the challenges of growing message traffic, rapidly-evolving security threats and increasingly complex data protection and privacy regulations. This paper examines such a solution. Posted: 06 Aug 2008 \| Published: 06 Aug 2008 TOPICS: Electronic Discovery \| Electronic Discovery Software \| Email Encryption Software \| Email Management Software \| Email Security \| Email Security Software \| HIPAA \| Regulatory Compliance \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Spam \| Storage Best Practices

Regulations Shift Focus on Outbound Email Security sponsored by Proofpoint, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Outbound email and other electronic communications pose a significant risk for data loss or leakage. This white paper will examine the new email security and compliance challenges and ways to address them. Posted: 10 Jul 2008 \| Published: 10 Jul 2008 TOPICS: Compliance Best Practices \| Data Security \| Electronic Discovery \| Electronic Discovery Software \| Email Management Software \| Email Security \| Email Software \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance \| Spam \| Virus Protection

Unauthorized Applications: Taking Back Control sponsored by Sophos, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper explains why it is important for businesses to control unauthorized applications such as instant Messaging, VoIP, games and peer-to-peer file-sharing and how malware protection is the simplest and most cost-effective solution. Posted: 01 Jul 2008 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Application Security \| Data Security \| HIPAA \| Instant Messaging Security \| Malware \| Peer-to-Peer Networking \| Regulatory Compliance \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Security Threats

The Role of Password Management in Achieving Compliance sponsored by PistolStar, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This paper will look at the dramatic impact password management solutions have had on organizations. Posted: 13 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2006 TOPICS: HIPAA \| Password Management \| Regulatory Compliance \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Security

CWAT Data Loss Prevention - Whitepaper/Technical Review sponsored by Software Engineering of America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: CWAT monitors all terminals including laptop computers and even missing terminals that are disconnected from networks. Posted: 25 Feb 2008 \| Published: 01 Sep 2006 TOPICS: Deployment \| FISMA \| HIPAA \| Loss Prevention \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

Log Management Best Practices sponsored by RSA, The Security Division of EMC WHITE PAPER: Developing best practices in log management is not a simple task. This paper should help organizations develop their own comprehensive set of best practices by providing a set of 40 recommended best practices covering logging policies; procedures and t... Posted: 14 Feb 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 TOPICS: California Senate Bill 1386 \| CobiT \| Data Security \| Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 \| Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act \| HIPAA \| Information Security \| Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard \| Regulatory Compliance \| Risk Assessment \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Security Event Management \| Security Threats

Sustainable SOX Compliance Made Easy with Tango/04 Multiplatform, Real-time Solutions sponsored by Tango/04 Computing Group WHITE PAPER: Compliance requirements and electronic discovery demands are placing a burden on IT managers. This white paper explores tools and strategies available to help organizations fulfill these requirements. Posted: 19 Sep 2007 \| Published: 01 Sep 2007 TOPICS: AIDC \| Change Management \| Compliance Best Practices \| Compliance Software \| Data Center Management \| Financial Reporting \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance \| System i

Lessons Learned for SOX Compliance and Other Regulatory Challenges sponsored by Symantec Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper examines lessons learned for Sarbanes Oxley Compliance and shows your company how to restructure the risk management function, internal controls, and IT security that help to comply with regulatory requirements. Posted: 17 May 2007 \| Published: 01 May 2007 TOPICS: Compliance Audits \| Compliance Best Practices \| Data Security \| Risk Management \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

Security Controls Oversight for Sarbanes-Oxley Audit and Compliance sponsored by ArcSight, an HP Company WHITE PAPER: Download this white paper and learn how ensure your company's compliant with a security management strategy that enables you centrally collect, store, monitor and display security event data. Posted: 24 Jan 2007 \| Published: 01 Dec 2006 TOPICS: Change Management \| Compliance Audits \| Compliance Best Practices \| Compliance Software \| COSO \| Data Auditing \| Data Collection \| Data Governance \| Data Security \| ISO \| Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance \| Security Architectures \| Security Audits \| Security Infrastructure \| Security Management

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SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 DEFINITION (continued): … SOX Section 404 (Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404) mandates that all publicly-traded companies must establish internal controls and procedures for financial reporting and must document, test and maintain those controls and procedures to ensure their effectiveness. The purpose of SOX is to reduce the possibilities of corporate fraud by increasing the stringency of procedures and requirements for financial reporting.
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